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Walt Whitman and Peter Doyle by M.P.
Doyle was a horsecar driver and met Whitman one stormy night in 1865 when Whitman, looking (as Doyle
Doyle.'
Pete would get to be great chums.
Murray, "Pete the Great: A Biography of Peter Doyle."
Walt Whitman and Peter Doyle by M.P.
Rice, ca. 1869 A sitting with Peter Doyle from the same session as another photograph of the couple.For
an 1868 portrait of Doyle also taken by M.
And, for an extended look at Whitman's relationship with Peter Doyle, see Martin G.
Murray, "Pete the Great: A Biography of Peter Doyle."
1877, then Whitman may have been referring to this image when he wrote from Philadelphia to Peter Doyle